Chocolate Mousse (Florian's Home!!!)

Florian is home, and to celebrate we made chocolate mousse! 

Us looking cute...

 Our real selves... 

 The chocolate

The stirring never ends...

The finished mousse

Life updates and blog takeover

Just a few quick updates.  Sorry I never write.  I feel like I never do anything interesting anymore, or take cool pictures.  Oh well.  I forgot to take a single picture when I was in Wales last month, which is sad, but it was much prettier in October.

Second semester just started, and I'm very busy with all of my classes.  My major is now officially music pedagogy, so I'm looking for students and learning a lot about teaching.  I'm really happy with the change, and think it will be a really great three semesters.  I'm focusing more and more on old music, which has been really fun, as well as nerdy and rewarding.  I love reading the old texts and working with the intonation concepts and old instruments, and I love the freedom.  Baroque music was, in a way, the jazz of the time, and thus when played properly, you have a lot of freedom.

Two weeks ago we had a concert that was streamed live onto the internet.  For my school this was a first, and they made a pretty big fuss about it.  That said, it was a good concert, the stream went well, and you can still watch it here if you would like. 

Florian will be back in Switzerland starting in three weeks.  We both have work and auditions while he's here, and I have school, so we probably won't get to spend a week in the mountains, but I'm still really looking forward to seeing him.  Maybe we'll even take a picture of the two of us.  But no promises!  So far our track record is dismal.

And, on to the blog takeover.  I'm taking some online courses this year through a lovely website that offers free massive open online courses (MOOCs).  Basically, that means a teacher posts video lectures, quizzes are computer graded, and that the real homework is peer graded.  I'll be using my blog to post some of my homework assignments, which means if you have no interest in music production, you should not read those posts (I'll label them, promise).  That said, if you want to learn something nerdy, feel free to keep reading.

That's all for now!